A different manifest destiny : U.S. southern identity and citizenship in nineteenth-century South America /

Wolnisty, Claire M.,

A different manifest destiny : U.S. southern identity and citizenship in nineteenth-century South America / U.S. southern identity and citizenship in nineteenth-century South America Claire M. Wolnisty. - Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Filibustering in Nicaragua -- 2. Commercial Expansion in Brazil -- 3. Southern Emigration to Brazil -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"A Different Manifest Destiny traces the way in which southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor from the antebellum to the Civil War era"--



9781496223357


Americans--History--Nicaragua--19th century.
Americans--History--Brazil--19th century.
Slavery--Political aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Slavery--History--Latin America--19th century.
Americans--Political and social views.--Latin America
White people--Attitudes--History--Southern States--19th century.


Electronic Books.

F209 / .D544 2020